17 Burst results for "Kevin Magnussen"
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Good morning, Martin. I'm doing well. It was a bit of a late night with Alpe and I won't lie to you. It was quite fun for them to hold it at print works. I used to live in East London as well, so it's quite nice to sort of be back in that part of the world. Yeah, it was cool. I really, really good event. Cinna dean sedan turned up like that, that's pretty damn cool. And it was just really nice for them to put on a good show and complete launch season, as you say. Now we know what all ten cars, ELISA liveries, they're going to be running, maybe not exactly what every single car is quite going to look like. But we're getting ready for Bahrain now. What next week? I fly there on Tuesday, so it's yeah, very, very soon. I can't wait. Now before we get going, last day for you at auto sport, you're setting up a new venture, but it's not fully baked, it's still in the oven. So you can't exactly say what that thing is that you're going to do, but I think it's fair to say we won't be strangers because you're just revealed you will be going to Bahrain. You joined also sports around the time Jess mcfadden joined as well. It was all around that kind of COVID and lockdown times. Can you remind me of the timeline? Yeah, it was February 2020, so literally just before the pandemic really struck big time in the march. And yeah, I grown up reading auto sport and aspiring one day to work for the magazine work for the company. And yeah, towards the end of 2019, we started having some conversations and things moved along and yeah, February 2020, I had got the job and started. I remember going into the office and meeting all the people and I remember through pre season testing we were getting sort of in the rhythm of me doing stories and stuff like that and one of our colleagues said, oh, I think we're maybe overblowing this COVID thing a little bit and sort of reporting about the drivers getting stuck in training camps and stuff like that. And then, yeah, my first race, which wasn't a race that I did for also sport was the 2020 Australian Grand Prix, we were there for I was there grand to live, I think 46 hours or something, 'cause I went back to New Zealand afterwards and then got one of the final flights home. So yeah, it was a funny old period that, but yeah, that was three years ago now, just over. So it's been an absolutely remarkable three years, I must say, and I'm just so enormously grateful to everyone at auto sport for everything they've done, to everyone who's read, work, tweeted, whatever, like, I'm just so, so grateful and it's been the biggest privilege of my career's work with all of you guys and to represent such an iconic brand. There is nothing like it in motor sport media. And to being part of that as being just an absolute honor, so I'm just so, so grateful to everybody. What was the beat that we had you on then? Because obviously have we got lots of people on the F one team and everyone does slightly different job. What have you been focused on for the last three years? So my primary job has been news. It's been the F one reporter role, which is all about getting the news writing the news, so I hate to think how many articles I've written for also sport in the past three years. I'm going to say it's probably into four figures. It's been a huge amount of work, but I've loved it. That was the main beat. And yeah, over that time, it's been a lot of doing podcasts with yourself, but I've been doing videos, we've been doing lots of stuff on social. I've dabbled in long form features as well, and it's kind of just been lovely to be part of an organization where you can do all of that basically. You've got the full array of basically mediums to talk to fans and to interact with them. So yeah, the main beat was news and it's been cool. It's been a fascinating period of F one to cover. Sports in better shape than ever and it's been really, really cool to be following that. Where's my book? Hold on. Hold on. I have it here. The story of Porsche attributes the legendary manufacturer, Luke has even had time in all of that to write a brilliant book if so if you love the story of Porsche and the history of that brand, just any kind of in the same series as Ferrari and Harley and Minnie and stuff. All these amazing brands that have wonderful kind of people going through and stories and all of these things. And so it ended up in an electric future for so many of them. So you can even go to Amazon and so in between all of that Luke's managed to publish a book, which is, of course, of course, you had time to do that. So go and check that on Amazon. If like me, you want to buy a copy. Well, obviously, we're really sad that you're not going to be doing these shows, but because we know what you're going on to it's so brilliant. So we're all really excited to see you start that. I shall not say anymore about where you're going. But it's not to go join Matt and Tommy, which is what everyone thought when Jess left to go to Skype. Oh, she's gonna go and rejoin the boys from WTF one. It's like, no, she's going to Sky Sports F one, which is where Jess is, if anyone had missed that piece of news. Anyway, you can follow Luke on his socials and I'm sure he'll announce where he's off too soon. Let's get into the topic of today's podcast. So we're going to analyze all ten cars, not so much the launches because the launch is the launch of the launches. But in terms of the cars and just have a look through what we ended up talking to talking about. So we'll start off, we're going to in chronological order, but we may not dwell on too many of them. We started off with Hass, we were all desperate to talk about Formula One again this year. So it got a lot of coverage because it was first has so they have a stronger upgrade push in 2023. Our colleague mat summerfield wrote about the detail changes that should stand out after I had a shakedown run at Silverstone. It ran for the first time. And so we got to see it. There was sort of a couple of days where lots of stuff happened all at once and they were putting on hulkenberg selfies of him at the factory and we got to see more. But apart from that, it began as a delivery launch. We got to find out more as the car went on. How do you feel about how to start to the season? Yeah, it's been it's been encouraging, I think. I think that with Haas like every year they kind of, it's a roller coaster. Every season is a bit different for them. There's always something that seems to happen, but I think it feels like they're going into this year in the stronger shape they've been for some time. They've got two very experienced drivers in Kevin Magnussen and Nico hulkenberg hulkenberg coming in to replace Mick Schumacher. He's not been in F one for four years, but he's got that experience he knows. He's always what he's doing is a very safe pair of hands. So I think together that's what hars needs. They've got a
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"It was quite similar seasons in the sense that both started very strong and then as the year went on, they struggled more. And I think that you look at how such a turbulent preseason when the Nikita Mazepin exit and exit in the wake of rushes of nation of Ukraine. And then Kevin Magnussen coming back, we, the three of us landed in Bahrain after the plane broke that we went to fly on and then we got another one that turned up and four pound from VA's locusts after a four hour wait for the new planes were arrived banks. And we arrived and landed obviously no Internet to the news that came out was back. And that was a real feel good story and you could feel the energy around harsh, which was then combined with, they had a quick car and maximum finished 5th really early on started so strongly that amazing poll in Brazil, which is a real like we didn't have many big shocks or freak results in F one this year, but that was like amazing. So, so out of the blue. But I think with harsh, you've got to remember that this is a team that still kind of reeling from the impact of the last few years. Like COVID and what is our future? Do we have a future? And that car was only given one update through the season. It wasn't sort of one of these really well developed cars or anything. So there wasn't sort of the chance I think for them to keep up with that midfield fight. So I think for them to finish 8 is pretty good. And with Alfa Romeo, obviously Sauber, becoming Audi down the line. This is similar to the kind of story side very strong. As I mentioned on last week's podcast, about the weight advantage they had to begin with. That was so, so crucial to what they did. But Bottas did a really good job stepping in from Mercedes. I think Joe's a rookie was fantastic. I know his points deficits Valtteri looks quite big, but I believe a Valtteri's 49 points. I think 46 of them came in the first 8 or 9 races and the gap came down from what was like I was looking at super times from what was like a four .45 gap at the start of the year was at .15 by the end. I think it was Bottas plateauing a little bit. I think from them. Are they going to have
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"I've got three panelists ready to fight it out and you of course are welcome to keep score at home as we look back on F one 2022 both on track and off track and also reflect on the various shenanigans that autosports F one team has got up to this year on our travels. Now our first guest today is wearing a very special Christmas themed hat. I appreciate the effort. It's our Grand Prix editor Alex Kahn orcas Alex, how are you? I'm very well. It's actually it's serendipitously Christmas colored this hat. It's not actually okay. So I thought I'd just make Stuart coddling feel uncomfortable with it. GP racing editor, Stuart codling, cod is how are you? I'm very uncomfortable at the moment, actually. Not because of my chair, but because of Alex's pronunciation of the word serendipitous serendipitous, like one of those in broadcasting. They're the worst. Speaking of absolute doses, Matt Q our third guess how are you today geeks? Excellent. I'm glad you set the tone. You mean to go on for listeners listeners we're doing this like we've got video feeds of one another in front of us and I'd also like to object to Alex raising his eyebrows. I think in my direction when he said to be going through all the autosport team shenanigans this year thought it'd all be interested to know that on my very last day in my previous house I got a letter from the Italian authorities for a traffic offense committed for imola. So I've now changed the dress and have changed the dress and have like 8 races of fines that will be diverted until I get caught by the carabinieri next time I try and set foot in Italy. I don't know, the Italians might be quite liberal on that kind of thing, but clearly not. Anyway, that does come up later in the quiz Q so thank you for foreshadowing that a bit. But yeah, so for any listeners out there, there are four rounds to this quiz. It's a mix of trivia from the F one season and also stuff that's happened off track as well. And as I mentioned and as keyword, he says, auto swatch shenanigans as well, including somewhere driving offenses, let us say. But anyway, let's start with our opening round, which is all about trivia. So this is sort of stats, random things that happen through the season. It's all on track stuff. So given the three of you are all Formula One experts, you should be getting full marks on this round, but we all see how you get on. And Stuart codling, you are up first and I hope you're a maths are quite quick, quite good. Oh no. First question is Max Verstappen set a new F one record for the most wins in a single season, winning 15 of the 22 races, but was his win percentage of 68.2 higher or lower than Sebastian Vettel in 2013. I'm going to say lower because there were fewer races in 2013. There were fewer races. It was 13 out of 19 races that Vettel won, and you are correct. It was 68.42% for Sebastian Vettel, so very, very close, but I'm sweating with a maths question. On to the next question, Matt Q, you are up next. How many drivers scored their first F one pole position this season? I'll have four thanks, Carol. You have four and you get one point for four. So share Perez, Kevin Magnussen, George Russell, and Carlos Sainz, which I think you have to go back to the 70s to find the last time there were so many first time pulses in a single year. So Alex coming to you now for your first question. Another qualifying related one, which of these drivers did not record a front row start in 2022. Sergio Pérez, George Russell, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Kevin Magnussen. The first two questions I in my head I was both wrong with both of them, but I'm pretty sure this one is Lewis Hamilton. You are correct, yes, amazingly, which I found very surprising did not start on the front row this year. Perez Russell magnitude all on Poland, Alonso started the front row in Canada. Very surprising Nazi Lois up there. Codd is back to you. How many races does Charles Leclerc retire from while leading this season? I'm going to go three. Three. You are correct. I'll give you a bonus point if you can name them. Baku. Austria and now I quit. You got back your right. It was also Spain and France. Oh yes. You're not going to pass it over to you, I'm going to pass it around. Not quite. We'll get there in the end, I think. Must be an age thing Connor's never mind. As is well known, my brain is like a skip or the useful stuff disappears overnight to be replaced by absolute twaddle. Well, not going to put you in good set for this quiz. I don't think God is, but we shall see. Q, coming on to you now, which driver scored his first fastest lap in Formula One this year. I have no idea. Well, I can narrow it down to one of 20 or drivers, all right. You've got a one in 20 shot at this, I reckon, yeah. Fastest lap. First time and F one career. Joe grand you. Oh cute and no way.
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"The most memorable Saturday races yet, as George Russell defeated Max Verstappen to secure top spot on the grid for the Brazilian Grand Prix, a split entire strategy saw Russell start on softs and Verstappen on the mediums and once both had picked off Friday hero and pole man Kevin Magnussen, a cat and mouse fight ensued at the front of the field. It took three bites of the cherry as Verstappen defended Hardin's term for the Russell got the move done with ten laps to go before sprinting if your pardon the pun into the distance and secure the Saturday win for Mercedes. Verstappen fell back to fourth after losing a chunk of his front wing in contact with Carlos Sainz, the Ferrari man grabbing second ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Science's engine change penalty drops him back to 7th on the grid, meaning it is provisionally an all Mercedes front row, although Hamilton is among 6 drivers going to the stewards this evening for various sprint race incidents. Joining me to discuss today's F one sprint is auto sport F one editor Matt Q now Matt first things first was that the best F one sprint yet. I think so, so listeners I'll give you a secret that we're not quite as spontaneous as this podcast would suggest we Luke sent me the script a few minutes ago for this. So I've been roundly I've just recapped refreshed for myself that the previous sprint races and what are the contenders before I think Silverstone probably for max versus Lewis, but that was only really one lap one corner. It was more about what happened the following day. And the only other thing of note, I think, at Silverstone, was Alonso's recovery. So that was decent. I suppose Monza you'd say how it set up the McLaren's for the win the next day and then Brazil was all about Hamilton's comeback drive, which in itself was fantastic, but in terms of the question over, what could Magnussen do? How soon Verstappen overtake. And then and then the Mercedes coming through, and the clashes between teammates and that's what you want from a sprint race. If I can make it all about myself, it's not an easy one to write because it's so frenetic and the laps ticked by a so quickly at such a short circuit, but that was mega if that's if that's what a sprint race is all about, then brilliant. But something I would complain about is can't all be perfect. So I was delighted that the rules were changed for this year because Kevin Magnussen is now recognized as officially having won a Formula One pole position. He is formula ones a 106 pollster, I think. What do we refer to Russell as now? Because he's not a Formula One race winner, even though he's won a Formula One race, is he? So I could still, I could still be yoked about that, but that's only if you press me Luke. You can be explored that and I did see I think the BBC ran their flash that came up on the app said George Russell wins first Formula One race and it's like technically yes, but also no. So it's an interesting one, isn't it? I think it's something that I think the stat gurus will be definitely digging into at some point. What do we call draw Russell? Do you know that I guess he did? He did win the race. You know that will be causing some consternation in a pub quiz ten years from now. Oh, there will be a way to draw Russell's score his first F one race win. Would this be counted or not? I will be the man up at the counter saying, now you gotta count interlagos 2022, but anyway, it's not about our future pub quiz success. It's, of course, about George Russell, a really brilliant display from him and Mercedes today. I think that the scene came into this weekend, maybe not expecting to be as competitive as it was in Mexico. I think it thought that it might be a little bit of a step back, but the car really seems come alive in the sprint race. We saw that with Lewis Hamilton as well, fighting his way up to third place. But I think the real key point was the fight between Russell and Verstappen. We know that split entire strategy was key and we'll get onto that. But Matt, what did you make of Russell's racecraft going wheel to wheel with Verstappen? We know how trick it can be at times. We saw at that very corner last year when it was Verstappen and Hamilton going wheel to wheel fighting for the title. Just what can happen. But it really seemed like Verstappen was defending so, so well into that corner, and it took Russell three bites of the cherry, but he finally got the move done. Exactly, it's sort of put me in mind of those Bahrain Saudi Arabia contests would look like where Verstappen very much seemed to be learning what to do. That's not to imply that he was green going into it, but you know, he worked out right if Russia's going to place his car there. And get good drive, then I've left myself vulnerable. So next up, I need to position my car a wider angle to get a better line back line to defend and carry more speed out of that. So I thought that was really shrewd. Even though he was battling with a silver car and it wasn't Hamilton, I certainly felt that when Hamilton came along and they were battling there and I was sort of more clenched, I suppose for that battle than I was for Russell, but this is really hard proper stuff going to town. And to throw it back to your opening question, was this the best sprint race? The Hamilton Verstappen battle at Silverstone was so short lived. This was three laps and but stretched over four laps we even had one lap off if you like. It was a nice break. And also, that's just talking about the main climaxes page. We could also discuss the opening couple of laps where Russell really sort of made Verstappen sweat and it looked like once Verstappen got his medium tyres up to temperature. That was sort of the battle for second, but effectively the wind even though Kevin Magnussen was still there or there about. So it looked like that one was done. But the fact it sort of then had this crescendo. It was brilliant and I thought both drivers, particularly as we've got from lower down the grid some cases of where it didn't go well, they executed their will to wheel battle perfect. That is distilled F one and the highlights were always exactly what you want
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"They decided to stick with the car that they knew through testing. They brought that into the first few rounds. They now the results when they could, while Red Bull had a few of our business problems built up a big lead, then they did start throwing developments on. Obviously the rear wing in Canada, which might leclerc very quick and they have been basically quicker every race. And I think we're going to have, we're going to get to the end of the season. It's going to be one of those years where we're probably going to have more good and great races than we've had for many a season. Lots of good individual fights because the cars are close. And then you look at the challenging points and go, that looks like a Red Bull walk over, but it isn't in terms of pace. It's nip and top, but as you say, it's all about the execution, which is what brings me back to the please hand the Ferraris over to Mercedes and let them run them. Right, okay. Now listen, what a Luke has been very patient and listen to all of this. And I do feel because it is hard. We commentate on the action. But Alex and Luke and Matt do have are in the paddock every weekend. A new in press conferences or whatever, looking these people in the eye. So I'm not asking you to go hard, hard in on them. Unless you want to. Ultimately, you have relationships. You do, but yeah, but that should never, it should never pull away from our journalistic integrity. And I know. But you are still, you are a nice person, and you have to go and work with these people. With these people, lovely man. You know, you've heard just say that at some point, the drivers are got it almost take control of this, you know, you've heard Kev saying put him on anything but hard, whether it's because, you know, run medium soft soft because Lewis was one and a half seconds quicker than those ahead who had managing tires. Could they have done a dash with two, you know, done a three stop. Okay, Luke, here we go. Why on earth did Ferrari get it this wrong with the hard tyres? Because they relied on their simulations and their data as opposed to the real world situation and what was actually happening. And their instincts. And that was the big difference today between Ferrari and Red Bull. And so if we wind it back to middle of the race, leclerc's past Russell, science is closing down and Russell fry looking pretty good for a one, two finish at that point. The difficulty there for Ferrari was that because they'd started the race on mediums and then gone for another set of mediums that their first pit stop, they had to go for either soft or hard because as per the rules you have to use two different tyre compounds in a race. That's just how it is. So then they basically did face a bit of a position where they said, well, do we want to extend that medium stint out longer and then we go on to sauce for the final step, which is what they ultimately did with science or do we go for the hard tyre. Now Verstappen pitted at the end of lap 38 and that that I think scared for our a little bit because they saw his pace, they saw how close he was guessing. And they thought we need to cover him off with Charles because Charlotte is the man fighting max for the world championship. So they responded one lap later brought him in at the end of lap 39. And that was where the race was lost. And at that point, they had 31 laps to make it to the finish on a set of tires. So obviously you had to go for the hearts. Their data, they looked at that point and Matteo bonato explained this afterwards. He said that they knew that it would be a tricky sort of warmup phase and everything with the hard tie, it would be difficult for them to get it into the right window. So it might for a couple of laps to be quite difficult. He then said there was predicted to be a ten to 11 lap stint where the hard tyre will be slower than the medium so it would place the advantage of Verstappen of Russell around them who are already on the medium compound tyre. But after that, the hard would be the quicker tyres. So you've got 11 laps of, yeah, a bit of short term pain. Hopefully try and keep that track position. But then afterwards, you've got the better tyre to get you to the end of the race. So they rely completely on their numbers. But what they didn't do was look at what other teams are done with the hard tyre. As early as lap 6, Kevin Magnussen for Haas came into the pit, it's put on the hards, and it was nowhere. Absolutely no, it was so clear just how bad those tyres were. Magnussen, Mick Schumacher's teammate, both did that. You saw Alpine they put Alonso and ocon on too hard because they wanted to go for a one stock strategy. In their defense, it did work, but only just like they nearly got beaten by an Aston Martin, which is like crazy given they'd locked out the third row of the grid. And it was quite clear just how poor those tyres were. Losing so much time in the early part of that stint. You saw Ricciardo squeeze past both of the alpines while they were squabbling, but again, he had a much quicker tyre. But said that he was asked, did you not see what Alpine had done? Oh, we better avoid that. And he said, yeah, we always look at what's going on, like the strategies never written in stone. But I don't buy that because you hear Ferrari always saying, oh, you're on to plan ABCDE and it goes right the way through. And there just doesn't seem to be that kind of flexibility that I think it was quite clear that if you go onto the hard, you're going to be in a world of trouble. And it was just a massive, massive own goal, and Kev, I think you got it absolutely boss on. Just put anything but the hard compound tyre on there because it was clear what was going to happen. And particularly when they were so close in terms of track position, that warmup phase was always going to be costly, and it was leclerc was munched by Verstappen in what a lap and then Verstappen spun and then re overtook him. So it was pretty crazy seeing what was going on there. And what for me was even more telling was the fact that Red Bull had actually planned to start Verstappen on hearts. They were going to do that. But on the laps to the grid, we saw Verstappen got a little bit wide, a turn too, similar to how he did in his first lap in Q three. On a set of softs and he said to the team, that didn't feel very good. There's not much grip out there. Let's on a set of soft. So let's maybe rethink starting on hards. They were like, yep, absolutely changed the strategy completely. And one in the race, because they trusted their drive, they trusted gut instinct and they didn't say, well, no, the numbers say this, therefore, that's what we do. There was actually a bit more sort of human thought going into it. So yeah, I think it was a massive, massive own goal from Ferrari and Mathieu bonato said after the race that this was the first race all season they didn't stand a chance of winning, because the cool conditions played against the car, the pace was no good. Science, the fact that he did run that medium stint longer for the second stint and then went onto the sauce at the end and still didn't finish on the podium, proved it. But actually, you still need to maximize points, Red Bull in Austria. They didn't have the quickest car, they weren't able to match what the Ferrari said in the race. Verstappen still came away second, the only lost 7 points to leclerc. Instead, Ferrari have lost so much ground today and I just think there needs to be more there needs to look at what they're doing. They need to be more flexible and trust their drivers. If Charles is saying leukemia on the mediums, keep them out on the mediums. If he loses it, that's on him, but it just seemed like they just were too reliant on numbers and simulations as opposed to actual feedback and real world experience. And do you know that reminds me of actually, ironically, 1998 Hungarian Grand Prix when it was the other way around when McLaren you felt that it appeared where they were just always going by the numbers. And I put it into the machine and this tells me what I must do. And Ross Braun goes, we need some clean air Michael and bringing you in, you're going on a street stop. Can you do 20 odd qualify laps, please? McLaren got themselves all knickers in the twist, brought the cars in the wrong order at a bad stop, didn't get me out the way when David Coulthard had more pace. I managed to get both their cars behind and took one of his great wins. Because it was flexible in its agile responding to the situations, and that's what, you know, as Luke says, that's what Red Bull
Strong Opinion Sports
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Now how about Alpine? Alpine is tied with McLaren 31 points and if they can finish fourth ahead of McLaren, that would be a huge victory for them. Also, they're pairing of Fernando Alonso and Esteban ocon. It's going really well. They're both competitive. They're both scoring points. I'm enjoying it. Fernando Alonso is going to be 41 at the end of July. I don't know how much longer he plans to keep racing, but he's not really slowing down. And he is still competitive. And I'm here for it, man. I love love, love watching Fernando Alonso race. And he's a tough old school guy that's hard to pass. He'll yell at you. But again, I think it's fun to watch. And Fernando Alonso asked him about them. They're a great pairing right now. Our French driver driving for a French team with arkon. Fernando Alonso seems to be the driving force. They're kind of like Tom Cruise was with Top Gun: Maverick, like nothing goes on under that his approval. And I love it. Okay, Alfa Romeo, there are 6 right now in Formula One with 51 points. I find out for a male just kind of boring. They're in the middle, they got a rookie Joe grand you who is finding his way in Formula One foundry botos was actually impressed me. He took a big step down going from a Mercedes car to an Alfa Romeo car. And yet he still competitive. He actually had a couple of good finishes, 5th in Italy. 7th in Miami 6th in Spain, Alfa Romeo, they're a bit boring, but they are a decent team. Now Hass is 7th right now in Formula One with 34 points and man Haas has been entertaining to watch. They've been bad for so long and to see them get points and do well is pretty cool. And you know, Kevin Magnussen has been competitive, makes Schumacher. By the way, Kevin Magnussen wasn't even supposed to drive this year, then Russia invades Ukraine and mesa spin to keep a maze that's been mazepin really loses his spot and they bring in at the last minute Kevin Magnussen and he's done way better than mazepin could have done and very surprising.
Box of Neutrals
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"Because clearly they need assistance. They're very, you know, they're very busy with having to apologize to the millions of viewers around the world for the national anthem person swearing at the end of it. I thought he did. They're an apology from crafty or from Lisbon. There must have been two shocks. All right, I can tell you it's loaded now. The winner of the British Grand Prix in formula mcginley on 273 points. It's try from India. He did try, and he succeeded. I can tell you what his team is in case anyone wants to copy him. Hamilton was the mega driver at both qualitatively and in this game. It also had Sergio Pérez, Kevin Magnussen, Fernando Alonso, and Alex Albon, album was the only one obviously I have to screw points. And Ferrari was his team with two cars in the points. So very well done. Very well done job by try second was shake your help bonds. Well, he was shaking. Not very good at this, was also seconds. Are you all right at this fourth was team one from Ireland? 5th was Davis F one? 6th side pod racing 7th. These cars out aren't louder enough or loud enough. Yes, very good. Oh, these are great. This is a great tail end of the top ten. 7th battery F one. 9th leclerc and collect ten haunts Harold frankton. That's superb. Tenth, the groundhog effect. There's a lot of equal tents, team one. 13 thin, top he's. Still less if it's the Nelson pay guy. Toby has a new joke, by the way. Do you want to hear? Oh, yes, please. Do you want to eat Nelson pay K calling up Bruce and Bill? What's the difference between a lentil.
Strong Opinion Sports
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Another thing to talk about though with Ferrari, another thing we have to talk about is that George Russell is massively outperforming Lewis Hamilton. Lewis Hamilton is a 6, 7 world time world champion. And is Georgia better driver than Lewis. It's hard to believe that based on a world championships that Louis is one. So is George a better driver or is he maybe just handling the porpoising problem better? I don't know if these factors have any I'm going to research this actually be really interesting to find out. Lewis Hamilton is 5 foot 8. He's 37 years old. George Russell's 24 and 6 foot one, I don't know if height helps with porpoising or maybe just having a younger back like literally being 13 years younger helps George Russell handle it better, but certainly Ferrari sorry, Ferrari's struggling, but Mercedes has really struggling too and the fact that they're hanging around Ferraris surprising at all based on how bad their car is. And I don't know. It's been years since I've seen a Mercedes car this bad and form of the one. Now George has finished every race in the top 5 that's very impressive. Lewis Hamilton is only finished ahead of George Russell one time this year. It was the very first race of the year in Bahrain, Lewis was third George was fourth. George S 99 points this year, Lewis has 62. Right now, George is the best Mercedes driver. I also after this race want to give a shout out to Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren took a risk with their strategy within Ricardo. They started with hard tires. Everyone else was pretty much on mediums. And Danny Rick stayed out the longest of anyone before taking a pit stop and it was getting dangerous where like he was going to have to pit because his tires are wearing down, but luckily on lap 33, right about the peak time where you got to take a pit stop, Kevin Magnussen had power failure and that led to a virtual safety car and Daniel Ricardo was able to take a pit stop without a huge penalty, that allowed Danny Rick to get 9th place and appoints finish, which, man, if you know what's going on with him, he really, really needed it..
Box of Neutrals
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"Slash special slash podcast for great deals on all your favorite drinks or check the link in this episode's description. It's forming to begin lay the fantasy Formula One competition of box of neutrals. In the double header, weekend. So it's very important that you consider using your team for these two rounds. I don't know who ever thought going from Baku to Montreal made sense, but anyway, here we are. I can guarantee I will not be gloating about having watched the race for lots of way they go. So at very best, this will be a 5 minute highlight. Kind of job for me. If I do remember to watch that it is, but anyway, that's your future mate to worry about. However, past me for the old good chip liquor land, the stamp and send it. So Michael I'll reveal these names for you. Give me a well done Baku or not well done. Valtteri Bottas. Not well done Baku. So Joe Perry's. Well done Baku. Lando Norris. He definitely was in Baku. He participated. He has to say one of these possible. That's what makes the show for it. Fernando Alonso. Yeah, well done Baku. Yeah, well done. Pierre gasly. Oh, very well done Baku, it was very practically burned. We end on the greatest punchline of all my team for us. Oh no, not well done at all. Not well done at all. Who you blogs? Let me have a letter. Here you go. Give me a well done. Not well done back. Okay. As soon as it lied, here we go all right, you ready? Yeah. I'm very fancy. This is very bad. All right, you ready? I need to use the turbo driver as well. Charles Leclerc. Aw, that's unlucky. What a pity. What a pity. Valtteri Bottas. Oh, yeah. That sucks. Kevin Magnussen. No, no. Fernando Alonso? Not well done. Not even not even like to the point where you could just this food in this restaurant can't even be used. It is a barrier. You will learn about driving out. Pierre gasly was the 5th driver and unfortunately the team was Ferrari. So not well done Baku. So where did you rank it? So, absolutely flying at the moment. So I ranked a 125th. He ranked a 120 feet. Your team was okay. Your team was all done. I'm almost going to be in the top half. 330. The current minutes. So I'm okay with this. Granted the ratio is bigger because we now, of course, have cracked the elusive half ton. On the form of the mcginley fantasy lipid fantasy lipping. Leg. So yes, please, we want more. We need to get to the magic number, which is 6 9 three. Of which we will then so as we hit 6 9 four, we will call a cable to ensure it remains relegation as it is. Absolutely. I was ranked tragically and Azerbaijan 410th, so not good, not well done, Baku, for me. Let's look at who was quickest in Azerbaijan. It was Toronto tonto three from the United Kingdom's second was touch my rear wing, third, mcginley, Aramco, we compete as one. Four money team one. 5. Linley teen one. 6 May pivot above all. 7th pumpernickel toast. 8th, check out my Paris 9th was Michael Massey and the car racing ellipsis and tenth was team Juan. If we look at the overall leaderboard, where I was ranked, I'm ranked 359th overall, if I first rob, you'll be pleased with this. Rob James 5 minute highlights from the United States to stay absolutely wonderfully. Leading spa rain from Germany third is Ricardo don't call it a comeback. Well, okay, maybe we'll say fourth, the spruce mousse 50 is bronnie team one. 7th side pods, what side pods? I have 6, I make your part and I can't count 7th was legal and Norris. 8th, linley team one 9th. Sergio's super yacht shenanigans. And tenth Charles eclair. That's a fancy formula.
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Welcome to our Sunday Night show analyzing all the action from the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix, which unusually for Barcelona was a pretty good race for most of its 66 laps. Max Verstappen led a Red Bull one two ahead of Sergio Pérez, but that headline takeaway barely scratches the surface of the whole event. For a long time, it looked like Ferrari's Charles Leclerc would romp to a simple win, given Verstappen and made rather a poor era on lap 9, caught out by a heavy gust of wind at turn four and he half spun into the gravel, but even before that, leclerc was gapping his title rival. But his ultimately a big disappointment for leclerc and retired from the so far undiagnosed engine problems just before the halfway point. Well, that stage, Verstappen had been frustrated in his comeback by Sterling defense from the very impressive George Russell, with his Mercedes team, looking like it has the pace to at least threaten the frontrunners thanks to its recent upgrades. Verstappen was also very annoyed with his Red Bull team, thanks to further DRS problems thwarting his attempts to pass Russell and allowing Perez to close in. That was after, of course, he had a DS DOS problem that stopped him taking part in the final ones in Q three yesterday. Anyway, that set up a Red Bull team ordered squabble as Perez's request to be allowed to attack Russell fed on deaf ears before Verstappen was switched to a three stop strategy, so he could then show his pacing clear air and not have to worry about making a DRS pass. Such as Verstappen's pace, he had actually cleared Russell when he emerged after his third stop and after that he easily caught up the Perez who had indeed quickly passed the Mercedes out of Verstappen's second stop. Red Bull ordered Perez not to fight Verstappen, which he called unfair before accepting the order and letting his team might buy to score a win that puts Verstappen into the championship league by 6 points over leclerc. Russell completed the podium to score his second trophy in Formula One and as a Mercedes driver, while elsewhere, Carlos Sainz was another spinner in the wind at turn four, where Lewis Hamilton and Kevin Magnussen clashed there on lap one with a 7 time world champion then putting in a pretty remarkably good recovery to finish 5th behind sights. That actually might have been fourth having said he's not encountered a reliability drama on both its cars within sight of the finish..
The Dork Forest
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Dork Forest
"They just, they don't last long enough, right? So that people dying in their 20s are all these guys in their 20s? So Louis is the oldest. He's 37, I think. He's like old, old, in Formula One age. And the fact that he's lived is its own triumph. And that's another thing to how good of a driver he is. And another thing to the safety precautions that they have put into the into effect. There is a race two seasons ago. I think maybe it was last season where this guy went into, I believe he was Kevin Magnussen went into a wall and his car basically blew up and he crawled out of the car. That's how good they have gotten at protecting this cockpit for the driver. Yeah. It's frightening. I think that a lot of the, I mean, if these are billionaires, the sons of billionaires, I'm sure they're parents are like, yeah, I don't want them to die. Why don't you work the R&D should also be involved in a big that kid live, 'cause I want grandkids. You know? Yeah, exactly. Wealth to pass on. And so that is fascinating to so Lewis Hamilton is where is he from? Is he British? Is he? He's British. He's British and I mean, just a phenomenal driver. He really is. Last year, oh, such a fascinating season last year. Because and if you do watch that drive to survive series, I would almost recommend you go from season one to four. You can do two and three. It's fine, but season one kind of lays out and gets you familiar with Formula One. And then season four, which is last year's season, was so tight and so incredible, it literally came down to the last race to see who won. It was a they were perfectly tied, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, Mercedes Red Bull, were perfectly tied. And so it would have come down to if both of them didn't finish if they got a wreck, max would have won because he had one more podium than Lewis D right. But points wise, they were the same. They're neck and neck. And so they, in my opinion. The news got robbed. Okay. Lewis got robbed. He got so fucked. And because there was a look at how dreamy this dude is. Decent he a good-looking dude? Yeah, dude. It's not okay. Just because this dude, he was chiseled out of literally out of a piece of marble. This is a beautiful bed. This is a yeah. And he's so cool. He's got cool style too. Like if you see his Instagram, he always looks cool. He's hanging out with Instagram. He looks like he looks like he might be a giant tool bag, but I mean, he's cool. We're his parents. Are his parents? So his dad is well. You know, yes, they do have money, yes. I don't think his dad or his family has like as much as like the Verstappen's or the strolls or the mazepin's, which are no longer in Formula One because they're Russian. So they got booted because of all the Ukraine stuff, which I support. But I believe his family net worth for Lewis Hamilton is 285 million. Okay. So his dad was a driver. His dad was a British racing driver. So he just sort of got whatever they do in fraternities. Or sororities. Grandfather. Yeah, he's like grandfather than..
Box of Neutrals
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"Freak out but it's not it's a scenario he's not used to, whereas George Russell's like mate every week in Williams. Well I was gonna say surely the reason is well part of the reason is George Russell is just very used to having shit cars at his disposal. And Mercedes is look, there's probably still top half of the grid. Maybe even third best, depending on the track and everything. But it's clearly not very good. It is closing in physical pain in George Russell's situation, so he's used to shoot cars. It's also been the thing even in Hamilton's best, he's even last year with you before. If there were grip problems, Valtteri Bottas, that often be the racers he'd be doing better. I don't even think Monaco last year weirdly with a car just couldn't grip and Bottas could figure it out. So maybe actually we lead to the weakness of Hamilton's being exposed. But over the last few years, when Hamilton has been winning everything and people have been going to be pouring, isn't it? I think we've said soaking these moments, not that they really enjoyable. But you're watching the greatest. Like you will be watching the greatest of all these years. I think it's now so interesting that you are watching a guy who arguably still at the peak of his powers. Maybe arguably just over the hill, but pretty much there. In a car that can not do what he wants, he knows he's retirement is soon. I feel like it's in the next few years, maybe he'll extend because he really wants his 8th and maybe it's not soon, but it just felt like even last year, regardless of the outcome before even Abu Dhabi. It felt like, you know, it was around the corner. It was a matter of getting the 8th and grinding it out, cashing in your superannuation. And away you go. We are watching something that's really rare in sport, I think, which is this stifled genius for one of a better phrase. And I know maybe I'm being disrespectful to Sebastian vet who's been doing this for many years now. But Lewis Hamilton is at the top of his game. This was going to be his 8th championship year. It's not going to happen this year. This is something you don't see often in sport, not that often. And I think we also should be absorbing this moment. Yeah, well, it says shoe back in 2005. Moment to be honest. All conquering season and look what happened. But that's it. Did bounce back quite a bit in 2006 and walked away from it? But yeah, this could be, this would be interesting. It had a bit of a crossroads at this point. Yeah, but again, I need some more data before I can be really confident to write off Mercedes for good because they have been detained there have been crying total wolf for a very long time about the performance of their car and they often turn it around. This is what's the space? Yes. And finally, I do want to mention Haas because they've been doing okay recently. Except for Mick Schumacher, who's been doing a bit of shit recently, but you know, hopefully he gets there because we all want to see mixing all right. Kevin Magnussen is doing good job though. Good enough job, in fact, that teams are choosing House of cheating, which tends to happen when it is doing well. He would have if he would have fornicated the whole paddock for one point. I don't know what he would be doing to be accused of illegal activity with his car. I think it's a flattering case to be. He would, I don't think he thought at any point in the new year when January came around. That's annoying. Father, that's on my case. Do we ever think that give it a few more months? And his cars, yeah, are in the points. They are being accused of well, they have to be chamber because can't be this good. Kevin Magnussen can't be finishing 9th on marriage. Must be shady. It's like a photocopy from maranello may have arrived in Charlotte. And..
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"So I think there's going to be more to come from Mercedes even Christian Horner set off the race that I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of it and they will become a force again. But yeah, just crazy to see how things have changed. Rather than just going back to the front, you can become a force, but you're playing catch up. So you can't just become as fast as Ferrari or Red Bull. You've got to become exactly as fast as and more. Plus a percentage. I said that if we're a second behind, we need to find a second and a half, because that's going to put us in front enough to be able to rack up points to get back in the side to fight. So it's a big, big mountain from Mercedes climbing this season. I always feel like we don't often give enough time to drivers that have had a great day. But Yuki tsunoda coming in 7th AlphaTauri AKP Pierre gasly whilst back in 12th in that kind of DRS train behind the Williams of Alex Albon actually and Lewis Hamilton behind him just couldn't get past, but otherwise Vettel and stroll in 8th and tenth bring it in those Aston Martins like we kind of came away from Australia. And my impression was, wow, Aston just got so much work to do. And then we come here, track to track different characteristics, and they're going to do a double points finish. Anyone want to take on any thoughts on any of those drivers first, before I pick on someone Luke obviously. I actually made a flip and comment to Alex in the airport queue while we were leaving Melbourne saying, what if Aston Martin don't score any points this year? What if they finish behind Williams? And that was probably a bit like, oh, it's just said a bit of apocalyptic. It's just like, oh, imagine this extreme scenario. And then this weekend, I think, yeah, better the vessel did very, very well to get as high up as he did through qualifying and through the spread and stroll today, yeah, he was, he was in good shape and stroll after the race. He said, let's not say, look, we fixed everything and we've got a car that's going to be solidly fighting for points now. But we're going to take advantage and seize the moment when we can. And that's exactly what Aston did today. And yeah, I mean, what, 5 points on the board? That's a very tidy haul. And I think it's similar to similar to Williams in a way. It's kind of thing where it's like, we know those aren't or merit, but if we get the opportunity, we're absolutely going to take advantage of that. So yeah, very, very well deserved and very well earned today. Yeah, so our backtrack on saying not America entirely was today. But yeah, I think they can be really pleased with that. And while I mentioned Williams there, Alex Albon, brilliant again in 11th place, and he said, to him, that performance was just as good as what he did in Melbourne when he got a point for P ten and he said, yeah, I'm really happy with that. And I'm just so good to see him performing at the peak of his powers again. Disappointed that he couldn't pick up a point today, Lance stroll was in tenth. Kevin Magnussen 9th, the last of the drivers on the lead lap and Mick Schumacher's 17th, so again, a bit of a big, same as McLaren, a big difference between the driver that scored pretty well on the driver that didn't. And we know Mick is a quick driver. But Kevin Magnussen, Alex, look, I know it's a bit of a cliche to say, oh, you know, they went backwards through the race, but it did feel like he was getting a fair amount of overtakes done on him in the first half of the race, really. He did kind of go backwards a bit, but will he feel disappointed with 9th today, but K max having an incredible start to the season. It's so good to see you. It's interesting. I think it sort of the cost of regressed a little bit to its natural level. I think it was of artificially inflated by the nature of how qualifying ended up, obviously he was one of the drivers to benefit from causing a red flag or one of the drivers to cause red flag that ended up benefiting from one. Also, I do think qualifying going back to Friday night had a real impact on the weekend for so many drivers and so many teams. I don't think Mercedes necessarily had both cars knocked out in Q three if there wasn't a red flag. Sorry, both cars knocked out in Q two if there wasn't a red flag there because they were all the gaps everyone from knife down to 15th were within a couple of attempts. It was all incredibly close. And you just don't know if I'm probably thinking more about George Russell would have been able to get ahead. And that would have made things very, very different. Made things harder for Vettel and Aston Martin. They did incredibly well. A bit like in Australia. Australia, a bit of an outlier track. I think Ferrari was as good as it looked there. I don't think astin was as bad in reality as it looks there. It's the same with Magnuson, right? So yeah, so he's sort of ends up higher than he should have been because problems for others. And then it just sort of regressed naturally. And the car is very, very good. They've made massive steps as leek said, helped by the fact that the Ferrari engine is no longer really down on power. Again, it's one of those things. He looked like a bit of a sitting duck, it was a weird tactic to go on the mediums in the sprint race. That didn't make a lot of sense. I think they expected higher degradation than the one that ended up being. But yeah, he will be this might be because he's a racing driver because that's just what they like. They don't think in terms of, oh, I'm just so happy you're lucky to be here. They always want to win. He shouldn't be disappointed. I think 9th place is still a decent result for us. We move on and I just finish off below the top ten for completeness Alex Albon 11th in the Williams Pierre gasly 12 Hamilton 13th. Esteban ocon for some stories as we head down the grid, yes, a bit of an unsafe relief release for ocon into Hamilton's path in a pretty tight sort of old fashioned pit line, a bit of contact. They got away with that. Joe 15th in the Alfa Romeo Nicholas Latifi 16th mixed Schumacher at 17th Daniel Ricciardo 18th in the McLaren two DNS Fernando Alonso damage at the beginning. The race and Carlos Sainz as we have mentioned. Now we move on. In two weeks time. And we're heading to Miami. Man, this is exciting. We have hired the worst Airbnb that money can buy. And you guys are all heading over there. Are you going to be staying in the same place? Alex, you're back on your back on the road. Are you looking forward to mainly because we're going to Formula One race, but also really interestingly, we've been invited to a special media event or a special sort of sponsor event by Mercedes Benz because Lewis Hamilton and Tom Brady are playing golf together. Now I have absolutely no time for golf. But two of the greatest sportspeople in the world being together, I think that's very, very cool, so yeah, looking forward to that, as well as seeing what Miami has in offer. And what else are you looking forward to, Alex? Wishing you a happy birthday? There we go. Yeah, there we go. Thank you. We're going to catch some we're going to have some baseball out there. That's the other thing I've thought you were referencing. Yeah, we got I'm going to have 29 hour 27th birthday on May 3rd. So I'm boxing this as birthday beers baseball Brady and some Formula One. Nice. Brilliant. I like it. NFL's mommy dolphins are making way at the hard rock stadium for some Formula One Jess. Are you looking forward to just something new and a different track layout and like literally everything is unknown I know that tracks they'll be doing modeling and simulators and all that which they always do going to.
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"So it's kind of like, it was just interesting watching it from the outside, because I was on site for I wasn't in Brazil, but it was in a Silverstone at Monza. And I sort of was just like, not sure in terms of the way it makes our sort of jobs different. I'm not sure I maybe sometimes not used to it because it was something different. I didn't think I enjoyed it as much. Watching it from the outside, I found it really interesting, having qualifying on a Friday night. And that's set everything in GD up. So yeah, it's just a funny sort of, I like it, and I don't like it. And I know that's fence sitting, but that's just kind of what it is at the moment. I'm not going to sit on a fence, and I'm going to give a very, very unpopular opinion, which is that I like sprint races. I think that for me is that look, and I'm not perfect. And I'm going to absolutely say that now, and I think there are some changes that are needed. For me, I mean, you look at the weekend format, basically, what we have is instead of a, instead of three practice sessions, we get two practice sessions and a rate, and to me that is, that's better. That is an improvement. I think the big change that they need to make for the sprint race is, is they need to make it a stand-alone event. I think they need to make it that if the whole point is that we have action all three days and we want the Saturday sprint to be flat out, no pit stops just pedal to the floor, go for it. I think you need to remove that setting grid for Sunday's race. I think you need to make it that the drivers are told, okay, you basically got an extra race, there are points on offer. I think, yeah, maybe you go back to the old pre 2010 system or the top 8 get points ten for the win or whatever or you keep it at the 8 7 6 5 four that we have now. But to me, that would meet the idea of making it exciting. I think it would give incentives to the drivers and I think I believe it's Kevin Magnussen who said after essays, yeah, I think if you made it stand-alone, then we want to take more risk because at the moment, there is still the, okay, now there are extra points on offer. That's a step in the right direction, but I don't think that made anyone change their approach thinking like, oh, there's more to play for. I think if you make it stand alone, I think it'll tick all the boxes. And I think that I think the idea of going to 6 events next year, I think that is maybe a little bit too many. I think the three is a good number. And I actually quite like the idea of events having more of an identity. I mean, Vegas, for example, that's going to be a Saturday night race. That's really cool. And to me, I think if you have more races like that, same with, I mean, I think personally it's a shame that Monaco has lost its normal Thursday practice and then Friday being a rest day format, not just because of the Red Bull party on the Thursday night, but it's because it gave that event some kind of personality. And I think that sprint weekends can be similar to that. So yeah, I'm in favor of sprints, I think that there are some tweaks needed, but I think the other thing is that they are here to stay. I don't think we're going to see F one backpedal on sprints anytime soon because they are ticking the boxes and I know a lot of fans don't like them. I said after yesterday it was the best sprint so far I got an absolute pile on Twitter from people. Because people are like, oh, didn't you watch Brazil last year? Oh, no, they're all terrible. And it's like, for me, I mean, Brazil. But I thought you'd be biased towards the Brazil sprint race, because Hamilton did. Exactly, because of classic British. We're also biased. And I'm sure that gosh, I don't know, but yeah, they got support. Sorry, I got a lot of that today as well. Are we all never been accused of bias? I don't know what you're talking about. We always, just because we are speaking English language that you all love Hamilton. Although, yeah, I know what you mean actually on Alex's point about there's something about it. I think it's because ever since GP two started back in 2005, they've always had sprint and feature races. It always felt like that was the second class citizen to Formula One, which had the Grand Prix. Which was like the build up event. And then when Formula One was doing that, format race format. I was always like, well, it's kind of cheapens it a bit. But I'm going to argue against myself and say, I still absolutely love it. Although it was brilliant, bring it on more please. So I would say that sorry, I don't want to labor the point on sprint, but I feel like this is the big debate of the auto sport podcast. But if Luke is bought Luke saying is that they're here to stay and that he thinks they're working and maybe some of us are a little bit more. Then just apply them to all the weekends. Because I don't I really don't like the idea of them being a separate event because why would anyone care about them? Like what's the point? Because why are we I get more to play for how? How would that add into the championship standings? Would we count points would we? Yeah, we would, because it's another race. Yes, I'm going to give you a big birthday cake. But I'm going to give you another third of a birthday cake. Where's the issue? So what I'm the way I'm coming at it is if I'm honest, right? Well, remember when I was first getting into racing and I was first getting into the lower series. I found it actually formula two, that format, complicated to get into, right? I found it quite like, so wait. Since they've changed it, holy smokes, good luck 21, new, trying to watch formula two because what? So what I'm saying is that I think as a championship, we over complicate so much of the way that we essentially say whoever completes the most amount of laps and is at the front wins, we seem to overcomplicate that process. And now I'm not saying that we need to dumb it down because obviously it is meant to be the Pinnacle of racing. It's meant to be the best teams in the world with the best drivers in the world. So many of F one's problems lie at the heart of the fact that it's an extremely complex championship with extremely complex rules. And if we add another facet to that, maybe I've just been burned so many times by this kind of stuff. And as having debates about how are we policing the sport, how are we, how do we explain this to new fans and get more fans interested, which obviously F one has done an amazing job at doing. And you could maybe argue two races on a weekend, everyone's going to watch. It's going to be amazing. Maybe you're right. Maybe if that's the way it's going, I'd be optimistic towards that. But I just feel like constantly adding complexity is not the way that F one should be going. Is what I'm saying. Sure. But I don't, I don't think it is complex, I think. I think if they made it, it's a stand-alone race, then I think it's very simple then. I think it's really straightforward. And yeah, fans might be like, hang on a minute, wasn't there one race last week? Why they're two this week, BCI, sprint weekends, you get two races. I don't know, but yeah, I think that's a big change they need to make. The current format, yeah, I agree. Alex totally the setting in the grid for Sunday's race. That is still a bit of a. Yeah, it's a bit uneasy. I mean, look, okay, look at why new Joe, for example, I spoke to Fred for sir after the race, and he was like, yeah, his pace is brilliant and with basically without that crash with gasly in the sprint, he had been in a really good position. Yeah, I think that's the big change that needs to happen..
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Over the weekend is getting further and further away from Ferrari and Red Bull, they're not developing, and as we had this conversation, yes, I think. The narrative of the press conference change, where it's not like come on boys and girls where we're so close, just dig deep and we can get there. It's now, yeah, we are making mistakes and it's that's just a bit of a nuance, but it has changed it slightly more pessimistic and it stemmed all the way through from FP one into qualifying sprint race and a lot of it is, you know, the qualifying pace was off because I think Mercedes were really hurt by the cooler tyre blankets and I say that because they've dropped to think 30° to 70° now. And they were coming out in qualifying in sort of wet to dry conditions and really struggling to sort of get the heat into their tyres. That third group take laps and laps and laps to come through. And I think that's another reason why we saw 5 red flags. So I hope I'm not trespassing on what Johnny and I was talking about in the podcast and qualifying. But why we saw so many red flags because they want particularly treacherous conditions, but their exaggerated by that cycle. And Mercedes in the company of Al fatori and Williams for struggling particularly with that and that's not company they're used to they're used to keeping. So they've got fundamental problems. The porpoise thing is still here and now they've got a lack of down force. So it seems like the list of problems or some of them are staying the same in a porpoise and they've not cracked that. Some of it and it still worsened Ferrari to a point where Ferrari can live with porpoises and still be quick, Mercedes can't. They're losing down force. The super times aren't good for them and now morale is taping a dip as well. And I know our colleague John is asked to tote this evening about that clip that we've seen of Hamilton and wolf getting a bit animated and he was saying, you know, it was just because we're both frustrated, we're coming at this from the same place we're so passionate. But these are things we haven't really been seeing. So yeah, I think it's the longest they've gone. So we know they've won 7, 7 drivers drivers titles 8 construction titles in a row. But I think the more sort of revealing or headline grabbing status, we have to go back to 2011 to where there were four rounds into a season hunt had a pole or a win. Wow, that is that I wasn't actually aware of, but yeah, and obviously yesterday in qualifying was the first time since Japan 2012, they hadn't had a car getting Q three as well. So yeah, it's been a pretty, it's been a pretty tough start to the year for Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton spoke this evening. He said that the worst car of his career he always regards to be the 2009 McLaren, obviously his title defense was in tatters pretty much from day one, but and he said, that is still the worst. He said this one is a far off, but there is at least potential he sees in it, but the battle for Mercedes is look, if you're a second off Red Bull and Ferrari right now, you need to be finding a second and a half, something like that to not only catch them and overtake them, but then start to build the kind of points buffer that will get you into any kind of title fight. So yeah, another difficult day for Mercedes and I think it's looking like it's going to be a pretty tricky season for them. Other notable stories think from the spin race we saw McLaren, they did add a pretty good day, Landon Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, 5th and 6th. Urban spoke to them after after the session and they said, look, we don't want to sort of say we are the third fastest team because we're not like it is pretty close at the moment, but it was a good sign for them, particularly given both teams. Sorry, both Norris and Ricciardo had a lack of running in FP two due to issues this morning, Ricardo didn't run at all. He said there's still half step behind going into the race, but they should be able to run pretty well from the third row of the grid. Kevin Magnussen obviously qualified that brilliant fourth for Haas. He dropped to 8th in the sprint race and that was all down to tire choice. They opted for the mediums instead of the softs and Magnus said the moment he found out that everyone else was on soft sea. He felt pretty nervous, he knew what was coming. So yeah, not exactly what they would have wanted, but he said, look, we still scored a point, and if you just said to us, we're going to start the race mate place and I would have taken that. So definitely some silver linings there. I think finishing off, the sprint race format, this is the fourth edition of it. For me, I thought this was the best sprint so far and a lot of people fought over Brazil 2021 and Hampton's amazing charge through the field, which, to me, don't get me wrong, is one of the finest Grand Prix performances I've ever seen. But this, I just thought I had a bit more action throughout the film. I know DRS was very, very powerful, but it felt like it felt really exciting. And yeah, it was enjoyable. I know sprints aren't. Everybody's cup of tea. What's Matt, what's your take on the sprints? How do you see them? How did you rate today's spring race? Comfortably the best one we've had, which is surprising, because on paper, when imola was a narcissist, why enough are they, you know, sprints are struggling as is to capture hearts and minds. So you put it at a track where you're taking is really difficult. Certainly for, you know, we've got 19 corners here and only one of them in umbrella is a viable overtaking spot. So for Ross broad he's trying to sell this idea. Why are you sort of exposing yourself like that? And yet we've had a really good one and that is because yes, some cars qualified out of sequence because of The Rain and slippery conditions. And it's also because we've got new cars, slipstream better and so that has exaggerated the already quite powerful DRS effect here. But there's always going to be changing circumstances. And I don't think it's always wise to sit back and go, well, if you take out that that and that had been really boring, because it wasn't. And then you lose the enjoyment. And I think we had a good one. And now there are lots of drama and yes, I'm slightly skewed because we were on the grid and with the Ferrari fans and stuff it was really powerful. There was excitement and so perhaps we like to even more because of that, but I still think I still think it held up. I know not everyone tuning in will be lap charting or making notes, but certainly it was 21 laps and I would like a bit more breeding space in the middle to tighten up some of my paragraphs before focusing on an exchange of arrays. So I think there's certainly like, again, it's that thing of you can have an embarrassment of riches as a result of this Netflix effect or whatever where you want things to happen now now now now, but that's not always the way it happens and it's better to preserve the good clean moves we had into tamburello rather than becoming sort of BTCC shunt fest because people are sort of very zealous and they want too much action. It's all made a bit more artificial. I think that got quite Michael massee. That was a motor race. I know, I know, I can resist it. But that was a good race. I think Australia, the way I looked at that was anything above Australia's, slam dunk a good race, anything below Australia, possibly could be accused of being a bit boring. I know it was a sprint, not a Grand Prix, but I thought we're above that threshold, so by my book, good race. It was indeed a motor race. There was actually there were a few fans, as you said, were absolutely fantastic. So there are a few really fun flags, one of them was it was the picture of toto. I think with the no no Mikey, this is not right. Quote over it. There was another flag that had a heights smooth operator on a bottle of ketchup, which was quite cool. Another with Charles Leclerc has Jesus, which I think tells you how the Ferrari fans do regard him. The grid yeah, it was your first grid as well as thank you..
The Autosport Podcast
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"If you look at the way the greener shaped up for sprint race, Lando, followed by Kevin Magnussen, Alonso, Ricciardo, Perez Bottas Vettel. I mean, there's no one in that, let's not call it the Lando train. Hey, let's not be disrespectful, but there's no one behind who you think, oh yeah, immediately he's going to get past straight away. There's not a car there Perez has got the car to do it. But, you know, yeah. So he's got a fair shot at a podium. Definitely in the sprint. Yeah, I would say that. I think over the full sprint plus Grand Prix fully expect people like, yeah, Perez and probably signs if they keep their races clean to be in with the shot of them if they make good progress. Like you say, I think if Perez makes soup start in the sprint, there's no reason you can't be right on the tail of that. But what we'll see what comes. But there is still a good chance. I think if it is dry and the weather conditions sort of go away from McLaren, I still think they're a podium come Sunday afternoon is a bit of a long shot, but I'm more than happy to eat my words if that is if that is the case. Yeah, I was talking about. I was talking sprint. But hey, you've played our favorite game or my new favorite game for 2022, is who would have thought dot, dot, dot. And so who would have thought in 2022? We will be talking about Kevin Magnussen, qualifying forth in a house. He is having such an amazing start to the season. And yes, today was conditions dependent. And again, there's a team who don't finish fourth on pure pace in perfect conditions. And again, you had that big cheer from the crowd when he got himself out of the gravel. It's just such a feel good story for this year, isn't it? Having Kevin back driving for Haas and doing really well. It really is and it's a story that keeps giving because you're spot on or can you imagine of saying that at the start of the start of preseason and Nazi everything that's gone on there. But yeah, the fourth place granted is probably higher than they would have expected, but their car is quick. It would have been Q three anyway. And I would, yeah, I would put it sort of top 8 on and with maximum at the wheel. Again, that's just a wonderful story in itself, but he's a quick driver. No one disputed that. And he's proving with a decent house. Granted, there's a few questions about its similarities. Let's call it to the Ferrari. But at the moment, completely legitimate and completely within the rules, to the point that Steiner was welcoming the FIA doing chest day, they visited the house maranello harbors, they've dubbed it. On Wednesday before Miller and Steiner said, yeah, they're absolutely fine with doing that. They can come every day if they want. So they are happy with how everything's going. And yeah, at the moment, I think that car and that package, particularly with magnitude at the wheel, is incredibly quick. And I fully expect these sorts of results to carry on when the opportunities there. And that's the thing, isn't it? Because if you can't forget about Australia where he finished behind Mick and the two houses were well out of the point. So it is dependent on the right weekend still. Definitely and in the same way that like Schumacher lost out because of the red flag in Q two and then it started raining so they couldn't improve in their times much the same way as everyone in the drop zone there missed out. So arguably make sure you make a start in 12th for the sprint race, but he could have easily been up in Q three as well. So yeah, like you say, it's those fortunate positions sometimes, but they are a team. This year, at least, and previous years before they're sort of drought, they've proven they can take opportunities when they're there, which I think is their key strength, basically. And if they get those opportunities, they're going to keep scoring points. Let's do a couple of minutes on the rest of the top ten and a couple of minutes on Mercedes Benz because there has been new to talk about there. So the rest of the top ten Fernando Alonso Alpine are bringing some new updates to imola, not all the teams are, but I think the Alpine is a floor and a rear beam wing. Correct me if I am wrong. That's right. Alonso was running the floor modifications in practice and ocon was running the previous spec. We get to hear the full digesting of what the success failures, but I guess if you purely took it on paper, Alonso being where he is in qualifying, it means that the car is properly where they want it to be. So it's very good. But yes, solid solid from Alonso, ocon had a gearbox issue in Q one, which meant he couldn't come out for the last run, hence why he missed out in that session. But yeah, Alonso, without the technical issues. Put it in a very respectable 5th place. And Daniel Ricciardo coming off a 6th at home in its Australian home race. Again, it should be really happy with putting it on the grid for the sprint race tomorrow. If I haven't mentioned 21 laps any of our listeners that are like, what's the sprint racing in 2022 21 laps tomorrow? Which we're looking forward to Sergio Pérez in 7th Valtteri Bottas will be so delighted with 8th in the Alfa Romeo Vettel. Arguably, should be the happiest person in the top ten because the Aston Martin is proving to be dog slow, and again changeable conditions when they haven't got a run on pure pace and we talk a lot about the bouncing of the Ferraris who seem to have it not under control in terms of how much bouncing is going on. But when they get into the braking zone, mechanically, whatever Ferrari are doing mechanically and if I could answer that, I wouldn't be hosting a podcast. I'd be running Ferrari's technical department. But whatever Ferrari are doing mechanically with this 2022 different suspension setup, they seem to have, they can transition from often vmax into the braking zone better than say Mercedes can, but arguably Aston Martin as well, have no business being in the top ten at the minute. So Vettel should be really happy..
Strong Opinion Sports
"kevin magnussen" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"I thought Hass is going to be terrible. I know they were doing great during pre season testing and free practice, but I was very skeptical, and I'm like, ah, we'll see if this actually plays out on the track. And clearly, they are other than the top three, the fastest car as of the first race. What's even crazier, though, is it two weeks ago, Kevin Magnussen didn't even know he would be driving in Formula One. Not only this year, but literally ever again. And then Earl Cali and massive got dropped by Haas and I don't know. I mean, I don't know that this car would have gotten P 5. In fact, I'm not only not sure. I can declare confidently. Without Kevin Magnussen, this car would not gotten a 5th place or even 7th place finish in Formula One. Nikita Mazepin was not going to drive this car quick enough to get here. And it's very cool to see Kevin Magnussen in a genuinely quick car in Formula One, something that we never really ever got to see until now. Mick Schumacher, there are other driver, they're young studies developing and growing. I feel like with every race, he finished P 11, one shy of a points finish. And it's just really exciting because Hass showed a lot of great pace. It's much needed for them and I mean, I compare this on Twitter or Instagram to like the Cleveland Browns and the NFL going from a just horrible football team to making the playoffs and returning to prominence..